Improvement in metallic paper-fasteners



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. MGGILL, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN METALLIC PAPER-FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 56.587. dated July 24,1866; antedated January 24, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. MGGILL, of Washington, in the District ofColumbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inPaper-Fastenings; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to theaccompanying' drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

In the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, it will beseen that the invention is clearly illustrated in Figures l, 2, and 3.

In making this fastener I take a strip of metal of the required widthand thickness and cut it oft' to two inches in length. I then measureoff twelve-sixteenths from one end and bend the metal at right angles atthis point; then measure off the same length from the other end and bendit likewise. I now measure four-sixteenths from the angles just formedupon each of the two ends and bend said ends again at right anglesoutward or from each other. VVhenthis is done I simply bend down thoseparts which measure foursiXteenths until they lie close to the back ofthe center of the strip. This brings the strip into a T shape, with themetal doubled and the two ends of said strip lying in close contact toeach other.

The two ends of the strip are pointed, so that they may be readilythrust vthrough several thicknesses of paper. Theyform only one holewhen thrust through papers. After having been thrust through the file ofpapers the two ends are bent down from each other, thus tightly securingthe several sheets of paper between said ends and the arms of the T.

I do not propose to confine myself to the size of fastener herelndescribed, as it can be made of any required size and of any thicknessof metal, so that it can be readily manipulated.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The within-described paper-fastener, formed of a single piece or stripof metal bent in a T shape, the ends ofthe strip being in close oontact,and pointed so as to make only a single hole in the papers which it isdesigned to connect, the two ends opening from each other after passingthrough the papers, and contining said papers between said ends and thearms of the T, substantially as set forth.

GEORGE W. Y'MQGILL Witnesses:

C. M. ALEXANDER, J. M. MAsoN.

